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Whats really interesting this time round as oposed to last year is tha twe're seeing a lot of non international Pakistan players stealing the show, Talat last night, Hassan, Umer, Zaman and all these guys.

Cricinfo
Quetta Gladiators XI will feature a combination from Bangladesh's Anamul Haque, South Africa's Morne van Wyk, Zimbabwe's Elton Chigumbura and Sean Ervine, and West Indies' Rayad Emrit who have all agreed to travel to Lahore. They are not quite like-for-like replacements for Kevin Pietersen, Rilee Roussow, Luke Wright, Tymal Mills and Nathan McCullum but organisers will be relieved that they do at least have an overseas contingent to rely on for the final.

Peshawar Zalmi Officials are confident that Sammy, Marlon Samuels and Dawid Malan will make the trip. The status of Chris Jordan was, until Saturday afternoon, unclear as he awaited clearance from the ECB to travel. Their fifth player, England allrounder Samit Patel, has not been given an NOC by his county Nottinghamshire, and will not travel to Lahore.
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Late on Saturday, however, league officials confirmed that Sammy, Marlon Samuels, Chris Jordan and Dawid Malan would be playing and were due to arrive in Lahore early Sunday morning - the delay in confirmation was due to the wait for Jordan's clearance from the ECB.

Yep, awesome stuff frm the Zalmi lads and they are all crediting Sammy for their confidencei n going to Pakistan, so ultimately, a massive round of applause to Sammy. The guy has literally become the most cheered cricketer in a country of 200 million or so lol

I have always felt he was an underrated leader of men. I loved the stoic look to his face when he captained WI to the world t20 after everyone doubted them. West Indies loss has been PSL and world t20 leagues gain.

I think this had to do with the amount of time spent in England so he will be heading back to Sussex without completing the series. Maybe Sussex have a pre-season tour but that wouldn't be held as time away from England.

Traded: Umar Akmal and Sunil Narine (to Quetta Gladiators) to get spinner Hassan Khan and fast bowler Rahat Ali. Also, will have their Platinum pick in the first round. Lahore and Quetta also swapped their second round of silver category.

Traded: Bought Umar Akmal and Sunil Narine from Lahore Qalandars in exchange of Hassan Khan and Rahat Ali. Quetta also gave up their Platinum pick in the first round to Qalandars. The second round of silver category has also been swapped between both franchises.

In the draft itself, players were sorted in the aforementioned categories in addition to a Emerging player(E) category. In addition, there was a 5 round supplementary (Sp) draft.

So, in the draft the teams could add upto 12 players- 1 each of Pl, Di and G; 2 each of S and E; and upto 5 Sp players.

On first view, I concluded that the good players released- like Shaheen and Rashid were part of the Supplementary draft and hence HAD to be released. But Colin Munro was also a pick from the Supplementary draft but is now somehow a Pl player for Karachi. So, I still don't know how it works.

Also, this time different teams appear to be retaining a different number of players in different proportions and I don't understand the mechanism for player promotion and relegation either.